All preparations for our product catalog have been done. We have made the settings we needed, created attributes and attribute sets and we created a tree structure of categories. Finally, we'll be able to add our very first products.

In this chapter we will learn:

Within Magento you may use various types of products. You'll need them depending on what your store is going to offer. The more complex product types will be discussed in Chapter 5, Beyond Adding Simple Products. In this chapter we'll only discuss the simplest type: Simple Products. A typical example of a Simple Product is one that does not have any options for the buyer. This could be our TV from the previous chapter, a phone, bag, office supplies, and so on. The Simple Product is the most used product type in Magento, especially because other types use the Simple Product to create a new one.